The rescue operation for on the Silkyara tunnel entered day 15 on Sunday (November 26) as 41 labourers proceed to stay trapped because the collapse of the portion of the under-construction tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi. The ops remained standstill for nearly your entire day on Friday, nonetheless, the extent of the issue was identified Saturday when worldwide tunnelling skilled Arnold Dix knowledgeable the reporters that the auger machine was “busted and damaged” and that it could no extra be used. The offiicials are actually shifting their focus to 2 options — manual drilling by means of the remaining 10-12 metre stretch of the rubble or drilling down round 86 metres from above.(vertical drilling). The blades of the augering machine drilling by means of the rubble of the collapsed tunnel have been on Saturday caught within the particles, forcing officers to think about switching to different choices that would drag on the rescue by a number of weeks extra. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) stated on Saturday that the operation might take a very long time with the auger machine for horizontal drilling going through repeated hurdles, and rescuers are actually making ready to begin vertical drilling. CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, who’s repeatedly taking inventory of the scenario, stated yesterday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been taking every day updates in regards to the operation. Meanwhile, a landline facility has additionally been arrange on the tunnel with a purpose to preserve the employees linked with their relations.
